that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous expectations-based reference point, responds …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

. Using data on students' expectations, we also find that the effect produced by time pressure on performance was correctly …